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FLY
TYING with PAUL PRENTISS 2-12-05
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| "My
earliest memory of fishing was on Lake Michigan
with my Grandfather. We used to walk out onto an
old dock and sit while fishing for Yellow Perch
with his friends. In the late 1940's I would climb
aboard my Green Schwinn Cruiser and head for a local
pond with my bait casting rod laid across the handle
bars. By mid- summer I'd be down on Port Washington
dock on Long Island Sound casting small silver spoons
or fishing with shiners for snappers (small bluefish).
After moving to California in the mid 1950's I started
fly fishing for Bonito in the breakwaters off Santa
Monica. |
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| I fished for for panfish,
trout, and bass in the reservoirs around LA and
San Diego. I'd go out on party fishing boats or
the anchored fishing barges and fish with plug casting
outfits. I'd fish using any technique that produced
results. In 1964 I moved to Colorado and became
permanently hooked on fly fishing. In March of 2001
I retired from the Gates Rubber Company after 30
years so that I could spend at least 100 days a
year fishing."
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